Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The May evening was warm and filled with a golden light , and as he passed the Maria-Therese gardens the scent of the lilacs hit him with an almost physical pain . |
| 2 | Those who listened to him critically were dismayed he could not see that it was not disapproval by pacifists , intellectuals or even cowards that made the Nazi assaults an atrocity . |
| 3 | It made the nifty moves a bit difficult . |
| 4 | It will then combine the resulting findings to examine how in using the various techniques the interaction can be directed into one of the options instead of the other . |
| 5 | Given the right conditions the growth of the foliage will be quite fast and as the days get longer the flower buds will start to appear . |
| 6 | The two weeks of training on the Soltau-Luneberg Training Area had given the Royal Scots the opportunity to test to the full those operating procedures and ideas that had been developed since the conversion to Warrior had started in the new year . |
| 7 | Being surrounded by a supportive network of friends has always given the Happy Mondays the edge in the bullshit world of the music industry . |
| 8 | ‘ I have never given the Olympic Games a thought I am just plodding my way through the season , racing here and there , ’ he said . |
| 9 | A story which focuses on those aspects of ‘ family ’ , which family photography has deselected , but transforms the ordinary things every mother has seen — a wet bed ( as above ) , a bloody nose ( ‘ Emmett 's Bloody Nose ’ 1985 ) , candy cigarettes ( ‘ Candy Cigarette ’ 1989 ) into a technically and philosophically complex narrative . |
| 10 | Dead lucky you were getting in free to see the Olympic Games a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 11 | The Winsor & Newton Young Artists ' Award has prizes to the value of £2,500 , and offers the 20 finalists the opportunity to have their work exhibited in The Mall Galleries , during the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Annual Exhibition which runs until April 20th . |
| 12 | Whereas natural science works with a basic or datum language of physical behaviour , which , if adopted for social science , would mean that action-descriptions were inferred from descriptions of behaviour , Weber offers the social sciences a datum language of actions . |
| 13 | Well I think this war the aim of this war is to achieve erm minimum casualty , and by doing what the allied forces are doing by denying the Iraqui forces the logistics such as transportations and communication system is very vital to reduce the power of the enemy and then you can force him to retreat , or you can weaken the army that will result in minimum casualty for the allied forces . |
| 14 | Every day one hears of more and more calls to ban dogs from parks because owners will not clean up after them — thus denying the responsible owners the pleasure of walking their dogs in pleasant surroundings . |
| 15 | Later instalments disclosed the wondrous sights the astronomer had been privileged to see . |
| 16 | It was recalled that when the Community Charge was introduced and differential rating for the rural areas of the borough ceased , to compensate the rural areas the Borough Council undertook to pay Parish Clerks ' salaries and to be responsible for the maintenance of playing fields . |
| 17 | ‘ Erik is the first to admit that when he first joined us , he found the physical demands a bit difficult , ’ said Clemence . |
| 18 | They claim that the education authority 's official statement of his learning difficulties failed to specify the amount of extra teaching he should have , and that his school was unable to provide the five hours a week one-to-one lessons they believe he needs . |
| 19 | I hope that , as with some of the other CD singles in this series , the disc is in fact a taster for a well-filled Mason CD : there is a striking recent Double Concerto for Horn and trombone , a strange Horn Trio , and a huge , weird and wonderful String Quartet , which all deserve the repeated hearings the CD medium can provide [ CM ] |
| 20 | 4.2 Learning Outcomes have been amended to reflect the actual competences the student will have on successful completion of a module rather than reflecting knowledge acquired by the student . |
| 21 | We 've done the same numbers every week |
| 22 | The West German Ambassador , Hermann Huber , who earlier in the day told the new arrivals the transfer of 4,000 to West Germany was a ‘ one-off action ’ , appeared again to tell them : ‘ For the time being we are letting you in . ’ |
| 23 | Multiple energy transformations can markedly improve the reconstructed images the filter concept in holographic transforms has also been addressed . |
| 24 | Her own mother contemplated such depravity with sorrow , convinced that it could do the poor creatures no good . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll do the two hours a day . |
| 26 | Short-term benefits derive from crime prevention amongst the young and an improvement in their perception of the police , which it is hoped will have residual effects in the long term when they are adults , but the wider community in Easton is only addressed secondarily as parents or guardians , which limits the short-term effects the programme might have on improving its perception of the police . |
| 27 | But a senior Kuwait delegate claimed his country had offered the other ministers a compromise on the tough quota demands it made when the meeting started but said the proposal were rejected . |
| 28 | ‘ You would n't believe the number of times I 've offered the beastly things a sugar lump and been nipped like billyo in return . ’ |
| 29 | It adds : ‘ The viability of this proposal will need to be further explored with the private sector and others as it is too early at this stage to value the commercial opportunities a road might bring for improved coal and mineral extraction , forestry , recreation and other developments to defray construction costs . ’ |
| 30 | At the same time , you can see the domestic holidays the pattern 's less clear , but certainly there does n't appear to have been any growth . |